18 Quotes by Natalie Diaz

Police kill Native Americans more than any other race. Race is a funny word. Race implies someone will win, implies, I have as good a chance of winning as –.

A good window lets the outside participate.

I confuse instinct for desire – isn’t bite also touch?

My country needs me, and if I were not here, I would have to be invented. – HORTENSE SPILLERS.

Unsoothable thirst is one type of haunting.

I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.

John Berger wrote, True translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal.

I, too, follow toward where I am forever returning – Her.

Trust your anger. It is a demand for love.